Initiative to the People 50

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

128677

37.78%

Against

211948

62.22%

Ballot Title:An Act relating to the taxation of real and personal property and limiting the aggregate annual rate of levy thereon for general state, county, municipal and school district purposes to 40 mills.

Initiative to the People 52

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

139492

39.09%

Against

217393

60.91%

Ballot Title:An Act authorizing cities and towns to purchase, sell and dispose of electric current, inside or outside their corporate limits, without the payment of any tax thereon; authorizing the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of facilities in connection therewith, and authorizing cities and towns to condemn private property, including the right to use and damage railroads, not common carriers, booming, rafting and sorting works, for such purposes.

Referendum Bill 3

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

99459

32.26%

Against

208809

67.74%

Ballot Title:An Act authorizing the sale and disposal of surplus electric energy by cities and towns outside their corporate limits; authorizing the construction, betterment or extension of electric plants and the acquisition and maintenance of transmission lines, distribution system and equipment necessary therefor; providing the manner and form in which accounts and reports of such sales shall be kept and made, and for the payment monthly to the State Treasurer for state purposes of a tax of five per cent of the gross receipts of such sales, and providing penalties.

Referendum Measure 16

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

169047

45.44%

Against

203016

54.56%

Ballot Title:An Act to prohibit the manufacture, sale or excahnge of any substitute for butter containing milk which contains any vegetable fat or any cendensed or evaporated milk containing any vegetable fat; also prohibiting the manufacture, sale or exchange of any butter substitute containing milk unless the milk therein be pure milk from which no butter fat has been removed, or any condensed or evaporated milk, or substitute therefore containing milk, unless the milk used therein be pure and unadulterated; and providing penalties.

Constitutional Amendment Article XI, Sec. 5

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

137093

51.52%

Against

129003

48.48%

Ballot Title:An Amendment of section 5, article XI of the State Constitution relating to county officers, by providing that the legislature may classify counties by population and provide for the election of officers in certain classes of counties who shall perform the duties of two or more county officers.

Constitutional Amendment Article XV, Sec. 1

Candidate

Votes

Percentage

For

99694

39.47%

Against

152911

60.53%

Ballot Title:An Amendment of section 1 of article XV of the State Constitution relating to harbor lines and areas, by providing that harbor lines may be relocated or reestablished and that none of the area lying between any harbor line and the line of ordinary high water and within not more than two thousand (2,000) feet of any harbor line shall be sold or the right to the control thereof relinquished by the state.

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